Ability to query NWP data thru an API

[MichaelHopwood]

Hello, I have looked through the documentation quite a bit and have had trouble finding a command which queries NWP results through an API, if one exists. I'm looking for some sort of function like:

ghi_prediction_results = function( date_range, longitude, latitude, altitude, **aargs, **kwargs)

I found solarforecastarbiter.reference_forecasts.models.gefs_half_deg_to_hourly_mean but was met with a FileNotFoundError, namely:

FileNotFoundError: gefs\2020\01\01\12\gefs_c00.nc does not exist

I expect I'm not understanding something crucial.

Thanks in advance for the guidance :)

[wholmgren]

NWP data is not available through the SFA API. You can run the CLI tool solararbiter fetchnwp to download relevant data from NOAA servers to your machine. https://solarforecastarbiter-core.readthedocs.io/en/latest/cli.html

[MichaelHopwood]

Gotcha, thanks!